- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
I agree that Democrats have been perceived as "elitist" but the reason that is so is because the Republicans have been adept at framing and defining the Democratic candidates. Couple this with a willing, lazy, stenographer pool of reporters who read Drudge, or daily faxes from the RNC to see what "issues" they will report on and then march out to fulfill their "duty" to their puppet-masters. All the ballyhoo about Obama's comment is being continuously remanufactured and kept alive by the traditional media by millionaire pundits and columnists who know nothing about small town Americans, poor folks or swing states. They only know what they "think" and their fantasies are usually totally divorced from reality. Their job is to investigate, to analyze, to think critically, based upon irrefutable facts; what used to be fondly referred to as "truth!" To these slothful blowhards, "truth" is nothing more than a "he-said, she-said" and their job is simply to promote the fight ... for ratings, for money, for personal egos... but never, it seems, for truth.
